Monday, April 18, 2016

During the 1860s the railroad printed its own dollar as a means of the
payment of wages. Male railroad workers were paid between $1 and $5 per
day. Immigrants were paid the lowest amount.
During 1922 it was reported that the railroads did a large volume of
business on a narrow traffic margin.
A railroad station stop of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad was
constructed in 1869. The president of the railroad was William Pitt
Eastman, an industrialist. When Eastman visited the new stop, he
purchased land on both sides of the line and laid out a town. William
Dodge, president of the Georgia Land and Lumber Company, funded the
building of a courthouse in exchange for the county being named after
him.

Dodge County Wills, Estates, Marriages

Dodge County was created in 1870 from parts of Montgomery, Pulaski, and
Telfair counties. It was named for William E. Dodge, a New York
businessman who owned large tracts of forest land in Georgia. Dodge
helped persuade Congress to remove taxation from timber and made a gift
to the county by building its first court house in 1908.

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